Ok, for all you guys out there pulling your hair out over the fact your new toy's fancy dancy x1400 card isn't supported, help is at hand!!!

By using the info at the following link: http://toni.to/ati.html
I was able to trick the current ati drivers 8.23.7 (i believe) into recognizing my card and letting me use 1280x800 with glx support on my acer aspire 5672.

Please note, for those of you using mm-sources I couldn't get the ati-driver to emerge using those kernel sources and had to revert to the latest (~x86) gentoo sources.

I can confirm that that dirty hack - that's what it is - works. I tried it with the same notebook (Acer Aspire 5672) and thus the same card (ATI mobility x1400) with ATI's 8.23.7 driver. It wasn't on a gentoo box though, but a suse one (bleh)..._________________know your user

I've been able to verify this works also on my Dell Inspiron E1705 (9400). I was only able to get the ati drivers to install correctly using the 2.6.16-r1 (opposed to the -mm branch which I was using). My resolution for my screen is now 1920x1200. One side effect is that when using the console window, my font is fuzzy. Fuzzy meaning the pixels around the words are constantly turning on and off in some places.

I've been on that forum for my wireless and I've gotten the card to work following those instructions ... kinda. For using the -mm branch, it was easy. Since I could not use the -mm kernel branch because of the ati drivers, I had to do a little extra work to get the wireless card working. I'll have the documentation up that I used soon (next day or two) at http://james.jamesandkristin.net/install-gentoo-linux-on-a-dell-inspiron-e1705/

Of course, the day after I use the hacked version and spend all that time getting it to work, they actually release the drivers. The drivers are also available on the ati page (I don't like going to url's I don't know).

Hey, I've tried the drivers now. They seem to work! But I don't get any 3d-acceleration. Should that work too? Do I have to build in DRM in the kernel or not?
Has anyone managed to get the new drivers to work properly???

Hey, I've tried the drivers now. They seem to work! But I don't get any 3d-acceleration. Should that work too? Do I have to build in DRM in the kernel or not?
Has anyone managed to get the new drivers to work properly???

The new drivers need a few patchs to work with 2.6.16 kernels. Use the latest ebuild in this thread.here

And no, you shouldn't have DRM in the kernel when you compile the drivers.[/post]

Hey, I've tried the drivers now. They seem to work! But I don't get any 3d-acceleration. Should that work too? Do I have to build in DRM in the kernel or not?
Has anyone managed to get the new drivers to work properly???

The new drivers need a few patchs to work with 2.6.16 kernels. Use the latest ebuild in this thread.here

And no, you shouldn't have DRM in the kernel when you compile the drivers.[/post]

Anybody know when it's going to make it into portage? I'm still running the old hacked version because it works fine for the moment and am too busy to try to get something working again (too many different projects at work).